Buddhism and Friendship Quotes

“friend defends your reputation, and so protects your position in society: he ‘stops others who speak against you’ and ‘commends others who speak in praise of you’. To do that, a friend must identify with you even in your absence.”
― Subhuti, Buddhism and Friendship

“If we have no friends who share our interest in the Dharma, our understanding of it is likely to develop slowly and perhaps lopsidedly, affected by the subjective biases that we inevitably bring to it. We need people with whom we can chew over what we have heard or read, and explore what it all means in practice – people who share our enthusiasm, and with whom we can relax and speak freely.”
― Subhuti, Buddhism and Friendship

“When a bhikkhu [monk] has a good friend, a good companion, a good comrade, it is to be expected that he will develop and cultivate the Noble Eightfold Path.6”
― Subhuti, Buddhism and Friendship